Curlin (left) catches Street Sense in the shadow of the wire in the 2007 Preakness.

Welcome to the Red Board Café, where the customer is always right.

For instance, on Monday morning, everybody in the place knew that Always Dreaming was a dead crab on the board for the Preakness, hovering as he was above even-money and going off at 6-5. The post-Derby spin painted him like the second coming of Smarty Jones, which means he should have been more like 70 cents on the dollar. Orb was 70 cents on the dollar, for Pete’s sake.

Shaman Ghost continued to establish himself as one of the better older horses in the country with his victory in the Grade 3 Pimlico Special last Friday, a score that built on family ties for his connections.

Cloud Computing gave paternal grandsire Distorted Humor another classic winner for his line's resume by winning the 142nd Preakness.

Stalwart sire Distorted Humor has been the gift that keeps on giving for his connections. He quietly played a role in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes, as his son Maclean’s Music was represented by a first-crop classic winner in Cloud Computing.

Yoshida takes the James W. Murphy on the Preakness undercard, giving his sire, Heart's Cry, a rare U.S. stakes victory.

Japanese sire Heart’s Cry has accomplished much in both his racing and stallion careers, but there is one thing he’s done infrequently. He was represented by just the second U.S. stakes winner of his career on Saturday, when his promising son Yoshida captured the James Murphy Stakes on the Pimlico turf.

Cloud Computing is a son of Maclean's Music, who won his only start with a 114 Beyer Speed Figure.

In the Darwinian world of Thoroughbred racing, stakes victories are the test of genetic fitness that largely determine whether male racehorses are allowed the chance to pass on their genes. The exceptions like Danzig or Malibu Moon are memorable precisely because of their extreme rarity.

Conquest Mo Money, who had previously finished second in both the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby and Grade 3 Sunland Derby, has been trained throughout his career by Miguel Hernandez, McKenna's private trainer.

Hernandez was based at Sunland Park during the winter and has about 25 horses for McKenna at Prairie Meadows, outside Des Moines, Iowa.

BALTIMORE – Cloud Computing, winner of Saturday's Preakness Stakes, emerged from the race in good condition, but his status for the Belmont Stakes is undecided, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.

That mirrors the status of Always Dreaming, the Kentucky Derby winner who was eighth in the Preakness, setting up the very real possibility neither will be in the Belmont, the final leg of the Triple Crown, on June 10 at Belmont Park.

BALTIMORE – It will take no time for folks to belabor the point that Cloud Computing got an absolutely perfect trip in his upset victory in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes here at Pimlico. This has already happened on social media and will continue into the night.

But while Cloud Computing did indeed benefit from a great setup, I hope people avoid the trap of denigrating this colt for it, or painting him as some sort of lucky opportunist. Cloud Computing is a quality horse and, in fact, had a break owed to him.